Comments on: 365 Reasons to Love Comics #44

By: lamaine the payne

lamaine the payne — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:54:40 +0000

i am just finding out about the orginal static all i knew was the wb’s static and i am loving the lilttel i have found out they should really work on some way to give us some more comics that would be awesome

By: The Kirbydotter

The Kirbydotter — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:00:51 +0000

Never caught on with the whole Milestone line.
Too hip hop for me.
Everything Milestone seemed to be inspired by the hip hop look.

By: "O" the Humanatee!

"O" the Humanatee! — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:01:07 +0000

My apologies, Mr. McDuffie. I don’t know what the credits read in the actual issues (they’re at my folks’ house, a couple of hours away), but I was relying on information on various web sites, including Wikipedia. Since Wikipedia is publicly edited and lots of people rely on it, you might want to see about changing the entry there.

By: Dwayne McDuffie

Dwayne McDuffie — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:08:28 +0000

Hi, Dwayne McDuffie here. Robert Washington is a very talented writer, but he had nothing to do with the creation of Static. I hired him to help out, after I wrote the Static series bible, when it became clear that I wouldn’t have time to Hardware, Icon Blood Syndicate and Static, as well as learn to run my new company. I’m a co-creator of Static, along with Derek Dingle, Denys Cowan and Michael Davis. Robert Washington is not.

By: "O" the Humanatee!

"O" the Humanatee! — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:58:03 +0000

I wish people would remember that Static (well, the Milestone Static, not Steve Ditko’s character) was co-created by Dwayne McDuffie and Robert L. Washington III, and not give sole authorship to McDuffie. According to the index at the Milestone Rave web site (http://milestone.luthor.com/) – I don’t have my own issues to hand – McDuffie and Washington co-wrote the first four issues, after which Washington wrote the bulk of the issues solo up to #18. McDuffie and Washington, along with Ivan Velez Jr., wrote the Worlds Collide title initiating a crossover between the Milestone and mainstream DC universes (with its very fun “colorforms” cover), and McDuffie wrote Static #14, a Worlds Collide issue, as well as the Static Shock mini-series years later.

I have no idea what the relative contributions of McDuffie and Washington were to the creation of Static, but personally I enjoyed the Washington-written and co-written issues (few as they were) more than I have enjoyed most of McDuffie’s solo work. IMO, Static really went downhill after Washington left the book; I think he really had a gift for character-writing that his successors lacked. I wonder what became of him?

By: I am MODOK

I am MODOK — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:26:11 +0000

Fantastic series. And I loved those subtitles on the covers. One for the kids, baby!

By: Chuck T.

Chuck T. — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:48:59 +0000

One of my favorite books ever, and I recently lost a couple issues in a flood. There’s about the right number of issues for a Showcase volume, DC…

And a DC Direct action figure.

Pfft. Probably see Hentai Power Girl before that happens…

By: J To The AAP

J To The AAP — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:43:21 +0000

^Hell is snowing?

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:05:24 +0000

As a tangent, how can one be *literally* under the weather?

It’s snowing like hell out there, man.

By: Evan Waters

Evan Waters — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:58:13 +0000

As a tangent, how can one be *literally* under the weather?

Back on-topic, I honestly thought “Static Shock” was the character’s name. Made sense to me at the time. But yeah, I’d like to see more of him.

By: Lynxara

Lynxara — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:37:09 +0000

I was about to say. “Wasn’t written by Geoff Johns” is no mark of shame for a character.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:31:15 +0000

Given what Geoff Johns has done with the characters he got to put on Teen Titans, I think Static’s absence from that lineup is a blessing in disguise.